Lead Backend Engineer

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🕒 February 12

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Islacare

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11 - 50 employees

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

☁️ SaaS

💰 Pre Seed Round on 2020-01

Healthcare Insurance • SaaS

Islacare is a digital healthcare platform designed to enhance remote care delivery for healthcare providers. It offers end-to-end digital pathway management, enabling healthcare teams to collect and manage clinical information in real time, improving patient care and productivity. Islacare supports a wide range of medical specialities, providing powerful clinical decision support and seamless collaboration across multidisciplinary teams. The platform is specialty-agnostic and customizable, ensuring effective and secure communication between patients and clinicians. Islacare helps reduce administrative burden, cut down waiting times, and streamline workflows without requiring new hardware or complex software installations. Its goal is to create positive change in healthcare through technology, as evidenced by strong client testimonials and use cases improving patient outcomes and operational efficiency.

📋 Description

• Own the platform & infrastructure: Lead the architecture, security, and stability of our GCP platform, ensuring it is built for 100% YoY growth. • Lead the backend team: Manage and inspire a high-performance team of senior and mid-level backend engineers (3-5 people), fostering a culture of engineering excellence that balances pace with uncompromising quality. • Drive platform efficiency: Act as the primary steward for technical cost-optimisation and resource management, ensuring the platform scales efficiently as our user base grows. • Architect complex integrations: Design robust systems to handle deep integrations with external partner APIs, managing diverse authentication mechanisms and resilient data patterns. • Drive technical strategy: Act as a key partner to the CTO and Director of Engineering (currently also being hired), aligning technical execution with business objectives. • Embed operational excellence: Refine best-in-class engineering practices - including IaC via Terraform, CI/CD, and security audit readiness - to prevent major production incidents. • Lead AI workflows: Act as an authority to drive agentic workflows forwards across the team

🎯 Requirements

• Proven technical leadership: Experience as a Lead or Senior Engineer, ideally having managed scaling challenges in a high-growth startup. • GCP & platform mastery: Deep hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform). • Backend expertise: Expert-level understanding of Node.js and TypeScript. • Integration experience: Comfortable architecting platforms that interact with diverse third-party APIs and robust authentication protocols. • People management: A passion for mentoring and managing engineers.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible working times • Work abroad for up to 90 days per year • 25 days annual leave (on top of public holidays) • Take your birthday off • Take Christmas Eve off too • Generous well-being perks • An annual learning budget to support your growth • Delivering social impact through improved patient healthcare • Working at a well funded and rapidly growing start up, solving a global problem in a new way • A whole lot of fun on an exciting journey